Product Manager Flowers

ROLE PURPOSE

• Represent Syngenta Flowers APAC to customers and stakeholders during events, trade fairs and customer visits.
• Manage the APAC portfolio (from breeding to retirement stage).
• Lead New Product Introductions in APAC.
• Represent APAC in global product meetings and instruct breeding on market needs.
• Keep portfolio administration up to date.
• Provide proof points for validations during tech & customer trials for successful introductions.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Portfolio management

• Position assortment against competition and market opportunities and develop commercially relevant differentiators/proof points from trials.
• Provide input in Supply & Operational Planning meeting: define substitutes for shortages in supply and develop sell out offers, appropriate for markets and customers.
• Assess technical trials in 3 to 1 years before commercial launch and convert trial output into key product claims.
• Manage together with Key Account Managers forecast of the portfolio in seeds, cuttings, and elite.
• Keep Product Management Database up to date for all crops in APAC markets.
• Rationalize (analyze and optimize) portfolio profitability.
• Participate in most important Product Core Team meetings to give input and collect takeaways (pivotal function between APAC and AMS/EAME).

Marketing

• Manage sample programs: define what where when why.
• Support Key Account Managers in setting up License production or Unrooted Cuttings sales.
• Write USPs for series and varieties for marketing tools.
• Develop digital marketing collateral in line with APAC marketing strategy.

Other

• Support in Strategic Country Business Plans (1-3 ear scope).
• Champion the APAC assortment knowledge & train the APAC commercial team on assortment.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

Critical Knowledge:

• Assortment knowledge and/or ability to learn quickly.
• Green knowledge: minimal bachelor’s degree in floriculture or equivalent knowledge gained through proven experience.
• Good knowledge on SAP and customer services processes.
• Thorough understanding of supply chain processes and systems in agribusiness.
• Experience in supply & operational planning and demand management.
• Excel-based analysis (including statistics).

Critical Skills:

• Analytical and structured thinker, strong in planning and organization.
• Teamwork, networker, self-determined (decisive).
• Reliability, accurate, at ease with numbers
• Good command of English in speech and writing.

Critical Experience:

• 6-8 years in product management, strategic or planning function.
• Working within an international environment.
• Developing relationships cross-functionally.
• Direct customer interaction.

• Occasional international travelling is required for successfully fulfilling this role.

Critical Leadership Capabilities:

• Leading without authority and ability to drive projects and changes.
• Ability to understand and assimilate different markets and cultures.
• Verbal communication, ability to listen, reformulate ideas into concepts.
• Team orientation, diplomatic but strong results orientation.

Note: Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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Syngenta Seeds is one of the world’s largest developers and producers of seed for farmers, commercial growers, retailers and small seed companies. Syngenta seeds improve the quality and yields of crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and more productive crops, which is why farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds help mitigate risks such as disease and drought and allow farmers to grow food using less land, less water and fewer inputs. Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more vigorous, stronger, resistant plants, including innovative hybrid varieties and biotech crops that can thrive even in challenging growing conditions. Syngenta Seeds is headquartered in the United States.